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The Long Day Closes **** (1992, Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson) – Classic Movie Review 5.154

Writer-director Terence Davies’s lovely 1992 British labour of love film The Long Day Closes is his first since his 1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives, and is the third film in his entrancing autobiographical trilogy. Leigh […]

Mar, 14

The Karate Kid **** (1984, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove, William Zabka, Randee Heller, Chad McQueen) – Classic Movie Review 3,842

Ralph Macchio stars as bullied Italian-American teenager Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 martial arts drama film The Karate Kid. Macchio becomes more macho when his apartment’s handyman Mr Miyagi (Oscar-nominated Pat Morita) teaches him karate […]

Jun, 11

The Karate Kid *** (2010, Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P Henson) – Classic Movie Review 3841

Detroit single mom Sherry Parker (Taraji P Henson) relocates to China with her 12-year-old son Dre Parker (Jaden Smith, son of you know who). There is a bit of a culture shock as the kid finds people […]

Jun, 11

Tom Brown’s Schooldays **** (1951, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, John Charlesworth, James Hayter, John Forrest, Diana Wynyard, Kathleen Byron, Hermione Baddeley, Glyn Dearman, Francis de Wolff, Max Bygraves) – Classic Movie Review 3526

Robert Newton stars in a brilliantly sturdy and showy performance from as the strict and stern English public school reforming headmaster Dr Arnold, in the 1951 British film remake of the 1940 Hollywood movie Tom […]

Apr, 04

Tom Brown’s School Days *** (1940, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Josephine Hutchinson, Jimmy Lydon, Freddie Bartholomew, Billy Halop) – Classic Movie Review 3525

The 1940 school drama film Tom Brown’s School Days stars true Brit Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is ideal as stern English public school headmaster Dr Arnold. Director Robert Stevenson’s 1940 school drama film Tom Brown’s […]

Apr, 04

A Christmas Story **** (1983, Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1962

Some people put this up there as their all-time favourite Christmas movie. Certainly director Bob Clark’s 1983 Christmas classic is a thoroughly enjoyable, sweetly beguiling movie of reminiscences of a boy growing up in an […]

Dec, 16

Mean Creek **** (2004, Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz) – Classic Movie Review 966

Writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes’s 2004 well-crafted revenge thriller is taut, tense, creepy and a little bit scary. In Stephen King Stand By Me mode, it’s an unsettling little thought provoker as well as fear ride. Rory […]

Mar, 22

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